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by antod 5mo ago
Are you saying this is Arthur Dent's fault? (again)
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by antod 5mo ago
Off topic, but the name reminds me of mochikit and early JS library in the JQuery kind of area. Mochikit got bundled with Turbogears an early Rails like Python framework. Rails inspired a lot of frameworks back then. Must be over 20yrs ago.
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by antod 5mo ago
Just personally I tend to regard retort as short and reactive while rebuttal as a longer and more considered disagreement. A retort could be defensive and wrong or it could be sharp and insightful - it doesn't imply one or the other. A
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by antod 6mo ago
I agree. I taught myself CSS1 by reading the spec (it was limited, small and simple). CSS2 was a lot bigger and way more complex but Eric Meyer's Salmon book helped a lot. One problem (20yrs ago at least) was that for a long time the s
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by antod 6mo ago
The revolutionary guard probably view it as a win for them. No more clerics or civil bureaucracy to argue with now they are fully in charge. They don't need their navy or airforce to assert even more control over the civilian populatio
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by antod 6mo ago
People also forget or don't realize that before systemd Redhat shipped and supported upstart in RHEL too.
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by antod 6mo ago
git's replacement won't be there because it was better at being what git is (too entrenched), but because git became redundant as the world changed around it. As agentic development takes over and people stop caring about source c
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by antod 6mo ago
Can you install Office 4.3 from floppies faster than installing the latest Windows updates? Not being a recent Windows users, I'm actually kinda curious. I'm sure the CD version would install faster.
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by antod 6mo ago
I did that back in the 90s too. A modern IDE like set of features for lisp would've been awesome. Notepad on NT4 didn't cut it :)
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by antod 6mo ago
Just to clarify for other readers, sword fighting while riding office chairs is not slacking.
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by antod 7mo ago
Didn't the Celeron 333 (easily overclockable to 450) also have a similar pencil short hack to enable SMP in a dual slot mb?
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by antod 7mo ago
There were two serious breaches recently but they were at private companies not HNZ.
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by antod 7mo ago
Yup, sounds very familiar.
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by antod 7mo ago
Start your password with a forward slash :)
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by antod 7mo ago
Have you seen the price of crab legs lately?
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by antod 7mo ago
Excellent, I'm going to cascade that outcome to my team.
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by antod 7mo ago
One thing to keep in mind is that uv was the product of a whole lot of packaging PEPs finally landing and standards being set. That combined with not having to support all the old baggage meant they could have an effect modernizing communit
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by antod 7mo ago
I think the rise of Facebook was possibly my first sense that our victory for "open" on the web was going to be short lived. Eg our (well not mine, I never used it) comms were moving to proprietary platforms. Then with AWS our inf
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by antod 7mo ago
Yeah, dynamic typing is one thing, but the magical dynamic imports into the processes globally scoped namespace add another level to debugging difficulty. At least in Python (as a comparison example), imports are only available in the modul
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by antod 7mo ago
But it's not totally irrelevant in this story. Cops are already susceptible to confirmation bias, and for "efficiencies" they are delegating part of their job to apparently magical tools that will only increase their confirma
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by antod 7mo ago
> Netflix wanted the option to make deep kernel modifications without being required to open source everything. GPL2 would've let them do that just fine as long as they didn't distribute the Linux kernel to someone else. AGPL w
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by antod 7mo ago
As an aside, I remember before the 90s when the Iran/Iraq War was called "The Gulf War".
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by antod 8mo ago
A lot of regulations are also for consumer or user protection - not just for the first owner, but later owners too. Substandard waterproofing may not be dangerous, but it does bankrupt people and ruin lives.
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by antod 8mo ago
The only time theoretical modelling happens in most civil engineers careers is at university. Especially so with geotech/soil mechanics - it is the most inexact and variable/unpredictable area especially when water gets involved.
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by antod 8mo ago
> The future is both amazing and shitty I feel like we're living in one of those breathless futurist interviews from a 1994 issue of Wired mag.
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by antod 8mo ago
Absolutely. It's often more calculated than that though. The only way (by design) to succeed in the regime is through corruption - you're giving the leader the rope to hang you with if you ever fall out of favor.
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by antod 8mo ago
While their audience (and the odd staff member) is overwhelming anti AI in the comments, the site itself overall editorially doesn't seem to be.
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by antod 8mo ago
"Run anywhere" was getting pretty stretched long before it was killed, Linux support was orphaned, old, buggy, vulnerable and hard to run in contemporary browsers. I was stoked to watch Apple nail the coffin shut, and see it consi
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by antod 8mo ago
Maybe asking how it reacts to a turtle on it's back in the desert? Then asking about it's mother?
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by antod 8mo ago
I feel we are on the cusp of a new era... Civil Engineering bridge analogies about to be replaced by forklift analogies.

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